1. If you know the full pathname of the file, type it in. For convenience, click the Browse… button to open a standard Windows dialog box that allows you to search your local and network drives to locate the file.
2. Click the Import button. The system validates the ACH file.
If the file validation is successful, the screen displays a summary of the ACH data in the file: for each batch, there are dollar amounts for credits and debits, and also a count of participants.
If the file validation fails, the screen displays a line-by-line listing of the file contents and an error message explaining why the line was found to be invalid.
3. If validation was successful: click Submit to perform the import and create the new records, or click Cancel to leave everything unchanged.
If validation failed: edit the ACH file to fix the invalid entries. One error often cascades, inducing other errors, so you probably should fix only the items called out on the first invalid line and then try the import again. You can repeat this process until the file validates correctly.
Note: Import Jobs must be approved from the ACH Activity and/or ACH Admin/Approval Activity screens. To view the Import Job click on the Hyperlink of the File Name under the Pending Delimited/Fixed Import ACH Jobs section to preview/approve the Import Job.
Note: The Import process does not initiate the ACH Transaction. Once the Import process has been completed the ACH transaction must be initiated from the 'Initiate ACH Batch' screen.